Arelle Webserver - How to extract the income statement from an XBRL filing?

Question

I am trying to extract financial statement information based on type of the statement.

Let me explain to you in a little more details.

I want to extract the inco

Answer 1

Fortunately, it is not that difficult to extract financial statements. Here is how I was able to extract income statement info:

1. Use arelle web server to get the complete fact table as shown below: http://localhost:8080/rest/xbrl/view?file=c:/Python/SEC-EDGAR/sec/2017/01/0001530425-0001477932-17-000505-xbrl.zip&view=factTable&media=xml

Replace the file="" parameter with your own path. You can also substitute url for file parameter

2. Once you have xml fact table in xml format, extract role nodes where for income statement, you can look for "StatementsOfOperations". Even though there are a few variations for income statement role id, they are not that many.